Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Air (Early 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 905 1147 78.9%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Multi-Core Score 4490 3112 144.3%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Geekbench 5.4.4 Geekbench 5.1.1 Pro

System Information

Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Air (Early 2020)
Operating System macOS 11.6.2 (Build 20G314) macOS 10.15.4 (Build 19E287)
Model Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Air (Early 2020)
Processor Intel Core i7-8700B @ 3.20 GHz
1 Processor, 6 Cores, 12 Threads
Intel Core i5-1030NG7 @ 1.10 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores, 8 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 126 Stepping 5
Processor Codename
Processor Package
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB x 6 32.0 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB x 6 48.0 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 6 512 KB x 4
L3 Cache 12.0 MB x 1 6.00 MB x 1
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C Macmini8,1 Apple Inc. Mac-0CFF9C7C2B63DF8D MacBookAir9,1
Northbridge
Southbridge
BIOS Apple Inc. 1715.60.5.0.0 (iBridge: 19.16.10647.0.0,0) Apple Inc. 1037.100.362.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.14281.0.0,0)
Memory 32.00 GB DDR4 8.00 GB LPDDR4

Single-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Air (Early 2020) Difference
Single-Core Score 905 1147 78.9%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
AES-XTS 934 3578 26.1%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Text Compression 823 882 93.3%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Image Compression 840 1014 82.8%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Navigation 879 863 101.9%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
HTML5 800 867 92.3%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
SQLite 874 961 90.9%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 897 1003 89.4%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Text Rendering 792 995 79.6%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Clang 923 921 100.2%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Camera 1023 1003 102.0%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 879 956 91.9%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 1152 1206 95.5%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 296 1003 29.5%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Face Detection 617 1113 55.4%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 1001 926 108.1%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 1908 1845 103.4%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
HDR 1834 1901 96.5%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 1116 1434 77.8%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 919 1027 89.5%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 1029 932 110.4%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Machine Learning 1137 1090 104.3%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 

Multi-Core Performance

Mac mini (Late 2018) MacBook Air (Early 2020) Difference
Multi-Core Score 4490 3112 144.3%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
AES-XTS 4912 7666 64.1%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Text Compression 5295 3360 157.6%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Image Compression 4789 3515 136.2%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Navigation 3244 2867 113.1%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
HTML5 3646 2169 168.1%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
SQLite 4223 2549 165.7%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
PDF Rendering 4369 2743 159.3%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Text Rendering 3958 2873 137.8%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Clang 4448 2501 177.8%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Camera 4216 2580 163.4%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
N-Body Physics 5171 3023 171.1%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Rigid Body Physics 7035 4150 169.5%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Gaussian Blur 4386 2365 185.5%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Face Detection 5273 3196 165.0%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Horizon Detection 4967 2996 165.8%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Image Inpainting 7160 4072 175.8%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
HDR 8496 5020 169.2%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Ray Tracing 7136 4229 168.7%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Structure from Motion 4147 2381 174.2%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Speech Recognition 3068 2103 145.9%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)
 
Machine Learning 2291 2064 111.0%
Mac mini (Late 2018)
 
MacBook Air (Early 2020)